Hyster-Yale, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, and services a line of lift trucks, attachments, and aftermarket parts worldwide. The company manufactures components, such as frames, masts, and transmissions; and assembles lift trucks. It markets its products primarily under the Hyster and Yale brand names to independent Hyster and Yale retail dealerships. The company also offers aftermarket parts …
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Where HY ranks in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Hyster-Yale, Inc. ranks #17 of 29
scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score — the top 59%.
The widest moat in the group is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT)
at 80/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near HY in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 37
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 55
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 20
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 20
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 57
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Hyster-Yale, Inc. (HY) scores 36 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #17 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery, the top 59%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 28 companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (57/100) and its weakest is Resilience (20/100).
How does Hyster-Yale, Inc. compare with other Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery companies?
Hyster-Yale, Inc. ranks #17 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are Manitowoc Company, Inc. (The) (MTW) at 45 just above it and Titan International, Inc. (DE) (TWI) at 34 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 28 companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Hyster-Yale, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Hyster-Yale, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and HY scores: Pricing Power (32), Cost Advantage (37), Customer Stickiness (55), Capital Efficiency (20), Resilience (20), Scale & Market Position (57). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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